Speaker 1: Here's an interesting follow up on a story from earlier this year.
Back in January, we covered this guy named Christopher Dickey, who was promoting the
drinking of urine in order to treat or prevent COVID.
And we talked about it at the time, and I explained to you then that a lot of this covered
quack stuff.
It's a recycling of old ideas that have been going around for a long time.
Urine has been promoted in the past for treating cancer, even though the Cancer Society says
there's no evidence at all for therapeutic use of urine.
They've talked about using urine to irrigate the sinuses, almost like a pee neti pot for
brushing teeth, applying it directly to the skin as a skin treatment of some kind.
And the origins or the oranges of this urine therapy thing is the idea that certain tumor
proteins are present in the urine of cancer patients.
And the idea is if you introduce urine into the digestive tract by drinking it, the erroneous
belief is your body will make antibodies against the tumor proteins and it'll destroy the cancer.
That's like one example now there's no evidence of that whatsoever.
It's true that urine can contain tumor antigens.
There's no evidence that drinking it, massaging with it, bathing with it, cooking with it
or any other urine application is going to stimulate antibody production in any way,
fight cancer or treat any symptom or disease.
So that was the idea before from Christopher Qi was the drinking of urine.
He's now moved on to promoting injecting urine.
Here is a clip of him at least claiming that he's injecting himself with aged urine.
You know how sometimes people will age stakes.
This is aged urine.
Speaker 4: I'm doing it for muscular.
I have your eye dying, but I'm just going to sterilize it with my own urine, right?
And and what not to talk about the stem cells, right?
Speaker 1: All right.
So and as this is going on, you see him take out a syringe.
Speaker 4: So pretty much every every type of stem cell is available in your urine.
So stem cells are the base pure DNA cells that will start replicating.
Yeah, additional cells for regeneration and repair.
I mean, everybody's hearing about regeneration repair.
People are flying to Thailand to get stem cell injections done over there.
Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the idea there is that Christopher Qi has injected himself with urine, and some
people wrote to me saying, David, he clearly isn't really injecting himself.
I don't think it matters because if people believe it, it's dangerous.
And this is all from the same school of thought that sometimes includes homeopathy.
Sometimes it includes, you know, some of these other.
I'm not going to rap too much, either.
This is what it is.
OK, now this is extraordinarily dangerous if you, you know, Christopher Qi said he's
injecting the urine intramuscularly.
If you inject urine into a vein, it can get very bad, very quickly.
There's actually a study called lethal sepsis and multiorgan failure after accidental injection
of urine in a drug addict, and the story is about a 33 year old drug addict that injected
urine because he kept it in the fridge in case he needed it for a drug screening.
And then he thought it was methadone and injected it, and it went into a vein and was confused
and shivering and had all sorts of different symptoms.
Sepsis, it was crazy.
OK, so this is all extraordinarily dangerous, and they just don't seem to be stopping now.
I genuinely wonder, like, are they really making money with this?
I don't know.
The guy who's interviewing Christopher Key here is Dr. Edward Group, and he runs some
kind of natural healing thing.
And does he make money promoting urine therapy?
I just don't know.
I don't I don't know exactly like what the what the money piece is now.
As I've said before, there is one possible legitimate life-saving use of urine, and it
is as follows If you are completely dehydrated, you're without water, you're on the verge
of dying.
There is a short period during which drinking your own urine could extend your life just
enough to be rescued or to get to water right.
Urine is 95 percent water, and it's believed that drinking your own urine might allow you
to survive an extra day or two.
It is strictly speaking, safe.
It replenishes some lost water.
But the problem is the other five percent of urine that's not water is not something
you want a lot of in your body, right?
You're taking the stuff that your kidneys have filtered.
Out, and you're putting it back in and putting it back into your kidneys, and this can cause
really bad symptoms and long, long term problems.
But if there's anything that in the urine therapy world, we would say is sort of legit.
It would be you might extend a deadly situation with no water by a day or two.
And that's basically it.
Absolutely horrifying stuff.